56 CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHID HORSES. 



No. 31.— The left (abdominal) testicle weighed only i ounce, 

 3 drachms, whilst the one which had descended weighed lo 

 ounces. 



No. 32.— The right testicle weighed only i ounce, 6 drachms, 

 the left one 2 ounces, 5 drachms. 



No. 35.— This animal was a well-bred hackney colt, from the 

 right side of whose scrotum a well-developed testicle had been 

 removed about three months previously. The animal was 

 troublesome with the mares. On the left side there was no 

 sign of testicle, and exploration of the inguinal canal revealed 

 this to be empty. The colt was bred by its present owner. 



Fig. 22.1 

 Shewing a front view, split open, of a degenerated oyst-like body (actual size) re- 

 moved from the end of the spermatic cord. The cord was attached behind. In the 

 lower portion is to be seen a small mass of the sebaceous-like contents. At the side is 

 a sketch of the worm (strongylvs armatus) taken from the interior. 



Under chloroform a careful search was made in the abdomen 

 for the missing organ, and at last a degenerated cyst-like body 

 about the size of a walnut, with attachments like those of a 

 normal testicle, only much less fully developed, was withdrawn. 

 As the undeveloped cord was too short to permit of its 

 complete withdrawal, I removed it by scraping with the finger 

 nail and then using traction. An incision made into this 

 revealed the contents to consist of thick creamy-white material 

 of the consistency of sebaceous matter or inspissated pus, and, 

 in addition, there came out a small whitish-coloured worm 

 about as thick as an ordinary wax match and nearly an inch 



'Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics," Vol. XIII., page 366. 



